Dear Blog thread,
I've been fighting migraines for the past three days, I've been sleeping every day and all night just about. I'm running on auto pilot at work, messing things up, but I'm scared and want nothing more than to go home to see my mom. Last week while mom was at work, she was getting tickets from a drawer close to the floor. Next thing she knew, something hit her in the back of her head. She was instantly on the ground, she tried getting back up but her balance was thrown off and she fell back into the bins. At that point a co-worker came and helped her back up, and the first thing a manager said was "Are you ok to work?" mom stayed at work, 2 hours later she was approached by a manager who asked "Are you ok?" mom turned to him crying and said "I don't know.", he said "Ok" and walked away. A bit later mom walkd to her co-managers office crying and told her "My lips are numb, I can't think, I'm confused, I think I need to go home." her co-manager said "Whatever Margie, just go home." and shut the office door on mom. Mom turned to one of her co-workers who was with her, started crying even harder and said "They don't care about me." her co-worker said "Well we do. GO to the emergency room NOW." Mom drove herself to the ER, sat in the parking lot for a few confused on what to do, and then just came home.
The next night, her and dad were sitting down eating, her mouth and nose started pouring blood. Dad panicked and she was finally taken to the ER. They did a CT scan, they found spots on her brain. They kept her in a room hooked to an IV for a few hours and then just simply let her go home. The next day she went to the Walmart doctor to get checked out. He was enraged that the hospital she was at the night before sent her home. The scans showed exactly what was wrong with her, and were what scared her Workman's Comp doctor. He immediately called corporate Walmart and demanded that they send someone in to measure how high the box was and how much it weighed.
The box was 15 feet in the air and 15 pounds, my mom wasn't simply hit in the head, she was hammered. She suffered a stroke, a sub-arachnoid hemorrhage. That workman's comp doctor immediately called an ambulance and had her rushed to MCV in Richmond, Va. They did another CT scan, it showed that the bleeding had stopped. They did a spinal tap to see where the blood she did have in her brain possibly leaked.
Been a few days, she's been home. She has to go through speech therapy, and do little memory tests. It kills me to talk to her. Everything she says, in text, on face book, over the phone... it makes me just cry. I can tell something about her has changed, I can only hope it is temporary. I can hear her struggling on the phone to talk at certain points. She can write things just fine she said, but her speech is very slurred and sometimes she cannot even properly pronounce something. Last night, within an hour, she told me the same thing twice without realizing she had already told me.
I've done some research on her injury, she is very lucky to be alive, 50% of the people that have the injury, and don't seek immediate treatment die in their sleep that very night. I'm panicked because she has to be very careful, the next 30 days are very crucial. 45% of the people don't make it within the first 30 days. This is something she is going to have to live with for the rest of her life. She's not going to be able to do the same things she used to do, she used to go to the gym every day, and a very strong, intelligent woman. They ran tests while she was in the hospital the 2nd time, other than her head injury, her health is immaculate. For a 45 year old woman who smokes, she has nothing wrong with her.
More than anything, I want to take Walmart down for this accident. Their poor management team, the placement of the box, everything. This could have been prevented. Mom could be in a better condition if they had immediately called an ambulance. The first words out of their mouth should not have been "Can you still work?" It should have been "Stay right there, an ambulance is on the way." Head injuries are not to be taken lightly, and people should know better than to allow someone with a head injury, who obviously appears confused as hell make a judgment call on something.
I am absolutely pissed for the terrible treatment from her managers. If I had a reliable car right now, I'm pretty sure I would be in Virginia at this moment putting my foot up some asses. I don't want money, mom doesn't even want to sue.. but I damn sure want some fucking blood for this. My brother and I both do.
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